Car construction.



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CAB CONSTBUGTION;

which it appertains to make and to use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred form of theinvention, though it is to be understood that the invention is notlimited to the exact details of construction shown and described, as itis obvious that various modifications thereof within the scope of theclaims will occur to persons skilled in the art.

In said drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of half of a box car equipped with one form ofthe device;

Fig. 2 1s a right and left vertical section taken on lines A--A and B-B,respectively,

of Fig. 1;

Figs. 3 to 6 inclusive show modified forms of sills having means forsupporting and uniting the floor and wall members;

- Fig. 7 illustrates the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 upon a largerscale; and

Fig. 8 1s a section through the side door threshold, as for example online B-- B showing the elevated plate of the sill cutaway to allow thefloor boards to be entended beyond the web, and a sill reinforcing anglesupporting the extending floor boards within the zone of the door.

An object of the invention is to provide a box car with a reinforcedmetal side sill,

having a web portion formed in part from a plurality of thicknesses ofmetal with laterally extending to and bottom flanges adapted to stifi'ensai web, with said flanges so disposed that one of them can be utilizedas a floor support, all combined with a side sheathing lapping the floorand sill web to form a grain-tight joint where the portion of such boxcar joins the sill. An outer framing of metal is also employed in suchmanner as to strengthen the car body structure and to hold the bottomboard of the side sheathing in proper relation to the sill and flooring.

The floor and wall joint for single sheathed cars includes a side sillmade up of a plurality of members collectively .op-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 2, 1916. Serial No. 112,708.

lower its. flange 12.

Patented Oct. 30, 1917,

crating to producea grain-tight joint at wall and floor and to supportand unite the same.

One of the advantages of the construction is that gusset'platesv 'at theside sill are unnecesary. and variations in the strength of the sidesill. member as a Whole may be brought about by changing the depth ofthat portion of the sill providing the web exten- $1011. This extensionis utilized for the purpose of securing the framing posts and braces tothe side sill at points above. the upper flange of the side sill and tokeep the side wall boards between the posts from bulging outwardly.

The arrangement insures at all times a joint which is proof againstleakage and ,which can readily be formed from commertion 10, and anangle 11, having a horizontal flange 12, being secured to and extendingupwardly from said angle 9. Paralleling the web 10 of the angle 9 andthe vertical web of the angle 11, is a web plate 13 which is secured inposition by a double row of rivets 14, which rivets connect said webplate 13 with the bottom angle 9 and top angle 11, said web plate 13extending for some oonsiderable distance above the laterally extendingupper flange 12 of said angle 11 and, considering the depending leg ofthe angle 11 and the vertical leg 10 of the angle 9 aswebs, it will benoted that there are three vertical web plates in this type ofconstruction.

Resting upon the horizontal inwardly disposed flange 12 of the'angle 11are floor.

boards 15 which are secured in position bythrough' bolts 16 extendingthrough said wood floor 15 and the inwardly disposed.

flange 12 of the angle 11. Obviously, before the members of the sillconstruction are rigidly connected together, angle 11 can be adjustedvertically of angle 9 to raise or i The floor level can therefore beraised or lowered, or any of dlfierent thicknesses of flooring may beused the posts 17 extending farther downwardly and being connected bysaid double row of rivets 14 to the lapped vertical webs of the sidesill.

Secured to the posts and braces 17 and 18 is a wood sheathing 20comprising a p 1urality of superposed narrow sheathing planks or boardspreferably bolted to said osts and diagonal braces. The bottom card 20of said side sheathing is cut away, as shown at 21 in Figs. 3 toinclusive, to clear the portion of the 5111 web which extends above theupper flange of sa d sill, said sheathing board 20 terminating 1n athinner lower portion 22 which is interposed between the floor boards 15and the upwardly extending portion of the web plate 13, so as to closethe gap betweensaid web plate 13 and the floor boards, thereby forming agrain-tight joint.

The general type of construct1 on employing a sill built up ofcommercially rolled sections and plates is followed throughout theseveral modifications, with the exception of the modification disclosedin Fig. 4, in which latter figure there is employed an angle 9 with arelatively wide vertical flange 10' which is lapped by-the verticalflange of an angle 11 having a horizontal flange 12 on which rests thefloor 15, and it is to be noted that the flange, or vertical web, 10 ofthe angle 9 extends above said flange 12 and laps the lower sheathingboard 20 in Fig. 4, as does the vertical web plate 13 of Fig. 3.

However like the specific construction disclosed in Fig. 3, the lowersheathing board is attenuated at its lower edge and is disposed betweenthe floor 15 and posts 17.

'In Fig.5, appears another modification in which the sill web is formedby a vertical web portion 25 of a. rolled Z-section 26, having top andbottom flanges, while a web plate 13 is secured to the vertical web 25of said Z-section, and, as in Figs. 3 and 4, said web plate extendsabove the top flange 27 of said Z-section 26, the web late 13 and theweb 25 of the Z-section ing secured together by rivets 14, as in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 6, as in the preceding figures, the side sill is a compositestructure, but it em ploys a rolled channel section 30 having inwardly,disposed top and bottom flanges, 31 and 32 respectively, and a verticalweb 33. Paralleling the web 33, secured thereto as in Figs. 3 and 5, andextending above the flange 31, is a web plate 13".

In Fig. 7 the form incorporated in Figs.

masses 1 and 2 is shown on an enlarged scale, and in which a pressedmetal angle 35, havin a bottom flange 36 and a vertical web 3 extendingabove the inwardly disposed flange 38 ofthe top angle 39, is employed.It is to be noted that, in all of the mod1- fications disclosed, therivets connectin the paralleling portions of the verticalwe s of thesill also serve as connectin the vertical posts 17 to said sil s. Forex-- means for v ample, in Figs. 3 to 6 inclusive there are shown threerivets extending through the flange 17 of the post 17, and throu h oneor more thicknesses of the vertical si web, thereby utilizing the samerivets to connect the several members of the sill and said' and it is toaccommodate these upward extensions of the sill webs, and in someinstances the' rivets that connect the extensions with the post flanges,that the lower .outer portions of the bottom sheathing boards are gainedout or cut away, as shown. Intermediate the door opening of the car bodyand the ends of the car, short floor boards may be and preferably are,em loyed,

which floor boards extend across t 0 car from the inner faces of theside sheathing at one side of the car to the inner faces of the sidesheathing at the opposite side of the car.

At the door openings it is essential that the floor boards extendoutwardly beyond the normal outer line of said boards and as thevertical extensions 0' of the sills would otherwise interfere, saidvertical extensions Q are preferably cut away at the door openmgs.

Extendin substantially throughout the length of the door openings, areangles 40 having vertical web portions 41 riveted to the vertical websof the side sills and horizontal flange portions 42 extending outwardlytherebeyond to serve as su ports for the outer portions 15" of thefloorboards 15.

The vertical legs or web portions 41 of angles 40 which arallel thevertical web ortions of the side sills, are each secured to thoseportions of one of the side sills byto crowd the sheathing against theside sill web portion that extends above the top sill flange, and alsoagainst the car side framing.

What I claim is:

1. In combination a side sill comprising joined separately formedmembers adapted to support and unite a floor and side sheathing andhaving a seating surface for both forming a continuous plane, said sillincluding upper and lower flanges, with a web portion extending to ahigher "plane than said upper flange.

2. Connected members forming a reinforced side sill constructioncomprising horizontal flanges and a web portion extending to a planeabove said flanges, in combination with a floor and side sheathingresting on one of said flanges and held in interlocked relation withsaid floor by said web portion, the last mentioned flange beingadjustable vertically of said web portion beiore said members areconnected.

3. In combination, a car-sill comprising a plural-part web portionhaving a bottom flange, one web part having an inwardly disposed flangeadapted to be selectively p0- sitioned intermediate the top and bottomof FAQ said web and secured to an adjacent Web part, a floor resting onthe latter flange and a side sheathing extending betwensaid floor andsaid sill web.

4. In combination in a railway car, a sill comprising spaced upper andlower flanges, a web portion joined to said flanges and including a webmember separately formed from and extending for some distance 'above andbelow said upper'flange, a floor resting on said upper flange and a sidesheathing held in a space between said floor and the upper part of saidweb portion.

5. In a railway box car, a grain tight joint comprising an outer frame,a sheathing within and secured in position by said frame, a multipartside sill and a floor lapped by said frame and said sheathing, thesheathing and said floor being supported on a surface of said sill thatlies in a single plane.

6. In a railway box car, a side sill extending substantially from end toend thereof, said sill comprising horizontal flanges and a web portionwhich is formed from a plurality of thicknesses of metal connected withand extending vertically above said flanges, a floor resting on one ofsaid flanges, a side frame, and a sheathing secured thereto.

7. In a railway boxcar, a side sill extending substantially from endtoend thereof, said sill comprising horizontal flanges and a web portionwhich is formed from a plurality of thicknesses of metal connected withand extending vertically above said flanges, a floor and a sheathingresting on one of said flanges and a side frame on the outer side ofsaid sill secured to said sheathing.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand inthe presence of twowitnesses.

' JACOB I-I. WEISBRQD.

Witnesses:

OSCAR HOCHBERG, BLASDEL SHAPLEIGH.

